Example sentences of "have been wait [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I just said , goodness , I said we 've been waiting for this parcel since before Christmas and he says oh have you duck . |
| 32 | I 've been waiting for this day all week . |
| 33 | I 've been waiting for forty years for it |
| 34 | Is this what we have been waiting for all these years , the answer that has so far eluded us ? |
| 35 | McNeill said : ‘ I have been waiting for two days for this supposed written offer . |
| 36 | One is , none of the departments are resourced to give this a lot of attention , and secondly we have been waiting for further guidance from the Government on the outcome , particularly from local government , in respect of agenda twenty-one . |
| 37 | We , the readers of the narrative , have been waiting for this moment ever since the concluding words of the book of Numbers : ‘ These are the commandments and the ordinances which the Lord commanded by Moses to the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho . ’ |
| 38 | ‘ I have been waiting for this , you know . |
| 39 | They have been waiting for these choice morsels — dessert . |
| 40 | I have been waiting for some time for hon. Members to refer to my apparel and I am duly flattered . |
| 41 | ‘ I think a lot of Canadians have been waiting with baited breath for several months wondering whether he will stay or go and I think the fact he 's leaving is going to be good for the country , ’ the deputy Liberal leader , Sheila Copps , said . |
| 42 | So I mean she 's been waiting on that erm place down Junction Road but they , you know , we 've had nothing from . |